Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512(lemire.me)

110 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 87 comments

Data scientists need to learn about significant digits(lemire.me)

48 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 39 comments

Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark(lemire.me)

146 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 86 comments

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House(dbreunig.com)

178 points by dbreunig 6 months ago | 62 comments

Measuring the size of the cache line empirically(lemire.me)

27 points by ashvardanian 2 years ago | 1 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks(github.com)

447 points by yogthos 7 months ago | 247 comments

GitHub repository for ATLAS (Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization), a system for running local LLMs on consumer GPUs for coding tasks.

DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade(dbreunig.com)

444 points by dbreunig 1 year ago | 139 comments

Blog post by Drew Breunig arguing that DuckDB's spatial extension has made geospatial data accessible to far more people than specialized GIS tools.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder(mtlynch.io)

962 points by mtlynch 2 years ago | 288 comments

Michael Lynch's annual retrospective on his sixth year as a bootstrapped solo founder, including his TinyPilot business.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

My rude-ass car(neverbeclever.org)

399 points by isoprophlex 3 years ago | 418 comments

A personal blog post venting about the poor, intrusive software in the author's modern car and the broader enshittification of vehicles.